Reboot a VM

June 3, 2019

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There are two different ways of rebooting a VM in XenCenter:

A soft reboot performs an orderly shutdown and restart of the VM.

A forced reboot is a hard reboot which restarts the VM without first performing any shut-down procedure. This works in the same way as pulling the plug on a physical server and then plugging it back in and turning it back on.

A forced reboot should only be done as a last resort to forcibly retrieve the system from instances such as a critical error.

A VM running in HVM mode (that is, without Citrix VM Tools installed) can only be rebooted using a forced reboot; to avoid this, you should install Citrix VM Tools on all HVM virtual machines.

To reboot a VM cleanly

In the Resources pane, select the VM and then click Reboot on the toolbar.

Alternatively:

Right-click and click Reboot on the Resources pane shortcut menu.

On the VM menu, click Reboot.

The VM is shut down and rebooted. When this process is complete, its status indicator in the Resources pane changes back to .

To do a forced reboot

In the Resources pane, select the VM and then click Force Reboot on the toolbar.

The VM is immediately shut down and rebooted. When this process is complete, its status indicator in the Resources pane changes back to .

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